Comments for: 3,000 tons of paper for ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ produced at East Millinocket mill

EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — The hit erotic series “Fifty Shades of Grey” is more like 50 shades of green in a town in Maine. Nearly 3,000 tons of paper for E.L. James’ books has been produced at Great Northern Paper LLC in East Millinocket. Read More

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pelli_girl

Laters, baby.

Anonymous

A woman came up to me at a party and told me “You have to read these books!!!”. So I downloaded the first one on my Kindle. It’s nothing more than a really poorly written romance novel with better sex. But hey, if women want their soft porn wrapped up in bad prose, we’ll take their money any day.

Anonymous

You got that right. sick books, mediocre writing. Says a lot about where our society is now.

Guest

Rhianna has more #1 hits than the Beatles….

Anonymous

I agree the writing was poor, but sick? No sicker than what you watch to play whack-a-mole every night.

Anonymous

Your just jealous she makes more money than you…lol

Anonymous

Horrible books ….they call it BDM to much vanilla ,maybe the first book was BDM …no guy would want to read this unless in prison… but I can think of some Anne Rice books erotica , BDM that would blow 50shades in handcuffs away …just to name one book or series would be …Sleeping beauty by ANNE RICE….its a free pdf ….i found it on line for my wife she just got done reading 50 shades trilogy and I recommended sleeping beauty by Anne Rice .. …she said now that was crazy …and I have been reading the only true vampire series by Anne Rice ….nothing else holds a candle to them ..50 shades a perverted kid could write ..and the Twilight series is horrible unless your 16 or want to be 16 again ..bottom line at least us guys now know what women secretly like to do or fantisize about ..time for handcuffs, pony play,dity daves…

Millicent

I’ve read all three books of AR’s Beauty Trillogy…if your wife thinks the first one is a bit crazy…the other two are more so. 50 Shades was poorly written. The writing was like a group of teenage girls threw it together during a sleepover. At least AR knows how to write

Vannessa

Totally agree on the poorly written part of your comment. The grammar is awful and if I wanted to read “……” every other page, I would just read Facebook. I’m kind of on the fence about it so far. I’m about 1/2 way through the first one.

Anonymous

I have almost finished them and basically keep thumbing through the “enough already” sex scenes to find a story in there….still looking

3,000 TONS??? All the while my bank and my credit card companies are pleading with me to go to ‘Paperless Billing’ to save trees.

BTW:
No electrons were harmed in the sending of this post.

Anonymous

Oh, they make paper up there!

Anonymous

How are we to get our beloved National park if this keeps happening? This is an outrage!

Anonymous

the trees will make more money if they’re chopped down and sold.. unfortunately…

Anonymous

You know where you can stick your ” Beloved National park ” …………

Anonymous

it was sarcasm

Anonymous

Whats that, about a hundred trees??

Anonymous

A lot more than that

Anonymous

It’s ok 1964yawdem, the way they cut trees nowadays its over quick for them and I am sure the trees don’t feel a thing. Sleep well!!

Anonymous

Take it easy, the paper company has probably used the same lot of trees 3 or 4 times. Trees grow back!

Anonymous

Using the most conservative numbers from the source below, about 72,000 trees, or 150 well stocked acres at 8″ average diameter. Since we’re strip cutting instead of clearcutting (see any aerial photo of the north woods), and the fact that stocking isn’t perfect, there were probably 300 or more acres affected. Still just a drop in the bucket, I doubt any plans were changed in the woods, but it is neat that even our softwood is doing so much for these women.

I did cave and order the trilogy because so many people are raving about these books… that said, I am pretty sure that nothing in them is going to be something that I have not already done… lol… my life is best summed up by the Kid Rock and Uncle Kracker song, “Damn, it feels good to be me.” Yeah, that might be TMI … I should have written a book :)

Anonymous

3000 tons?! For that badly written, fan-fiction crap?

*shakes head*

Anonymous

I LOVE this trilogy and am so glad that Maine has a hand in production. Quit the sarcasm people, these are JOBS you are making fun of

Guest

I am proud that Maine wood has satisfied so many women.

Guest

LOL

Anonymous

Bow chica-bow ow…. Have to say, with all of the hype about how naughty these were, they weren’t that naughty.

Anonymous

Hey! wake up gang. Re-read the article. Who cares if the book is good or bad. Or if trees had to be cut. The paper company had an order to produce 3000 tons of paper. That will keep the mill going, will put food on the tables, will even have someone able to put a down payment on a new logging truck. Life goes on.

Anonymous

What a waste of paper……

Anonymous

Good for Maine for getting a piece of the action, so to speak, LOL. I haven’t read the books, but I am all for keeping jobs in our paper mills.